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Critics Consensus: Pitch Perfect 2 sings in sweet comedic harmony, even if it doesn't hit quite as many high notes as its predecessor.
Critic Consensus: Pitch Perfect 2 sings in sweet comedic harmony, even if it doesn't hit quite as many high notes as its predecessor.
All Critics (205) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (133) | Rotten (72) | DVD (1)
What felt like winking cheekiness in the first movie can come across now more like clumsy provocation.
The music is better and the comedy is worse.
It is badly written, inexpertly directed, poorly acted, erratically paced, and features music of dubious worth.
Anna Kendrick's Beca, a mash-up maestro, spends the movie looking like she'd rather scale a fish than scale her vocals. (Maybe because Kendrick is nearly 30, and she's still playing a college student?)
Ethnic clichés abound, college comes off as a free sleepaway camp, and the simple wonders of unaccompanied singing are inflated to Las Vegas-style bombast.
Stop me if you think you've heard this one before.
It is down to the fact that these are such likable and fun characters that makes the film thoroughly enjoyable.
Pitch Perfect 2 is a great sequel that doesn't necessarily mix the formula, but still entertains. [Full Review in Spanish]
There was so much potential for awesome, and yet, it just fell flat.
The musical numbers zip, and the one-liners come fast and furious, but [director Elizabeth] Banks reels it all in to a satisfying concoction that fans of the original will surely enjoy.
The main reason to see the sequel is the same reason you saw and loved the first movie: the songs. The music is inventive, inspiring and just really, really fun.
For a film that screams look beyond the surface, PITCH PERFECT 2 largely perpetuates stereotypes.
When the original came out, I wasn't that into Anna Kendrick, but in the last three years, I've really grown to hate-like her for the annoyingly talented, enviably petite, infinity-threat powerhouse she is. Elizabeth Banks proves a competent director in this installment, charting the trajectory of some real-life senioritis challenges for the stagnant Bellas: Beca gophering and ultimately impressing a bigshot music producer played by Key and/or Peele, Fat Amy taking a chance on Bumper (with non-aca backing track??), Chloe finally graduating from super-senior status, and Aubrey channeling her Type-A control freak mojo into a team-building retreat. The best aca-performances of the movie are the riff-off invitational, the training montage, and the campfire reprise of "Cups," but unfortunately, the parts that I expected to bring das haus down (the Das Sound Machine sets, the Bellas' final set, Hailee Steinfeld's audition, and the Jessie J-penned generic pop song "Flashlight")...didn't. Katey Sagal has a surprisingly nice singing voice though!
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I don't know if I'm just getting old, or if comedies lately are just that bland and generic. This was just okay background material. Some nice songs (and some irritating ones). Rebel Wilson is also highly irritating here. I don't mind her, and she's okay in some movies, but I don't think she really fits here. The story is just a rehash of the first one. All so so. Glad it was a free rental.
Pitch Perfect 2 is aca-mazing! Enough said. 4/5
Although not as memorable or controlling as the first, Pitch Perfect 2 is still vivacious, crude and entertaining. The film builds up from its sensational start and provides even more impactful numbers and catchy tunes to make for a pretty good sequel. 4/5
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